Nothing Else But You by Elle Wright

Author:Elle Wright
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: family drama, contemporary romance, college life, friends to lovers, new adult romance, finding the one, a man looking for an anchor to ground him, a woman with a troubled past, the letter club, true hearts together for all time
Publisher: Boroughs Publishing Group

Front gate

Di Caro residence

Dutchford, Connecticut

Gio

“Hey, Tommie. How’s the family?”

Tommaso Belaverdi bent at the waist and peered into Gio’s car. Tommie knew it was Gio, but Tommie wanted to see who Gio was bringing home. This was going to be chewed over for days by all the men who guarded the house. Gio bet a couple of the guys would come through the kitchen while they were eating under the pretense of just checking up to get a better look at Natalia. And the old man would be on Gio’s phone in less than half an hour, even though right now it was 11:30 at night in Sicily.

Gio had warned Natalia about all of it, and she had laughed and said she’d expected no less. But two hours ago reality must have set in because she’d made him call his nonna.

“It’s rude not to give her notice that you’re bringing someone she doesn’t know into the house.”

He shook his head.

“As a matter of fact, tell her we’re taking her out to dinner. She shouldn’t have to cook for me.”

He shook his head again, but did as she asked, to which his nonna had replied in Italian, “Don’t insult me,” and hung up.

Natalia had fussed about her clothes. “Old jeans are not appropriate to meet your grandmother for the first time.” Her hair. “Should I wear it down, pull it back in a bun, or braid it?” And her shoes. “All I have is my Keds. She’s going to think I’m a vagabond.”

She wore her hair down, tucked her light pink button-down into jeans that hugged her hips and ass like they loved her, which he understood, and her Keds were bright white. She looked like a dream.

“Who you got there, Gio?”

“Natalia Surkis, this is Tommie Belaverdi.”

“Nice to meet ya.” He waved Gio through and got on the comm unit before the gate closed. Christ.

As they pulled up the drive, Natalia let out a long whistle. “Impressive.”

“It’s meant to be.”

“Well, it succeeds famously. You grew up in this house?”

“Since I was six months old.”

“He wanted your mother to raise her children in luxury.”

“Perhaps. Everything he does has, at the very least, dual purposes.”

Gio swung the car around the circular drive and parked a little past the wide front entryway.

She looked down at her Keds. “At least I don’t have to worry about those steps and high heels.”

“Yeah. My mother and sisters wear rubber-soled shoes out of the house, and they carry their high heels. They keep telling my father those marble steps are a death trap. Clearly, he wants them to be or else he would’ve had them replaced years ago.”

“A man with a mission.”

“Understatement much?”

She laughed as he got out of the car, went around the back and came up to her door, opened it, leaned down and put his hand by her arm to help her get out.

“Speaking of death traps, this car’s ingress and egress is a mofo.”

“Italian sports cars are built for speed, not comfort.”

“What about the four-door Maserati touring sedan? Italian and built for comfort.

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